[Magdalen] Brightest and Best - The Epiphany, January 6, 2016.

[Christopher Hart]

Epiphany is special for me too. 37 years ago today Lisa and I were married.

On Wednesday, January 6, 2016, Mahoney, W. Michael <wmmah at stoneledge.net>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > The concept of the Epiphany was a complete unknown to me when I  entered
> > TEC in the Diocese of Milwaukee in 1958 (though I'd been attending an
> > Episcopal church sporadically for a couple years before that).
> >
>
> Epiphany is special for me.
>
> Twenty-four years ago, I came home from our evening Epiphany service and
> drank up the last of the vodka, bourbon, and scotch in the house.  It was
> the last time I have had any alcohol other than an occasional sip or
> taste.  The next morning I reported to and became a volunteered in a
> National Institutes Institute of Health experimental, in-patient alcoholism
> treatment program.
>
> The treatment, *qua* experiment, proved not to be much of a success though,
> as it turned out, I did not receive the medical and experimental component
> anyway.  But three weeks in the hospital did successfully wean me
>
> So Epiphany reminds me of a major turning point in my life.
>
> Mike M.
>


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Christopher Hart

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